[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Lutefisk, anyone? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/13/2012 9:06:02 PM EDT
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You'd have to threaten me with death in order to get me to eat lutefisk, whitefish gelatinized with lye.
Even CHOW's Supertaster James Norton couldn't stomach it. Hell, he couldn't even swallow it. 
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I'll never eat balut and I'll never eat lutefisk. No fucking way. 
I'm guessing that the lye denatures the protein in the fish resulting in the gelatinous gooey state. That's nasty. (from Wiki) Food uses Lye is used to cure many types of food, such as lutefisk, black olives, canned mandarin oranges, hominy, lye rolls, century eggs, and pretzels. It is also used as a tenderizer in the crust of baked Cantonese moon cakes, and in lye-water "zongzi" (glutenous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves), in chewy southern Chinese noodles popular in Hong Kong and southern China, and in Japanese ramen. In the United States, food-grade lye must meet the requirements outlined in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC),[2] as prescribed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).[3] Lower grades of lye are commonly used as drain openers and oven cleaners and should not be used for food preparation.[3] |
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And what's that fruit from SE Asia... smells like a month old dead animal but the flesh is supposedly the most delicious fruit on the planet??? Durian Durian, yes! Thank you! Anyone ever tried it? I should have while I was in Singapore. 
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Yeah, that
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| I will eat it. Everything goes down better with lotsa LA hot sauce. I always think about those poor Nors having to eat that stuff. I really like the leftsa with brown sugar and butter. My wife won't eat the nasty fish so she won't fix it. She makes a great leftsa. She will eat klube(?) Blood sausage. |
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Being from a family of Norwegian descent, I have enjoyed lefse many times(potato tortilla type things) and it is delicious. I and everyone in the family except for the old people all refuse to eat lutefisk though. Gross. My grandmother makes Lefse every time I see her, shit is good. I have no intent of trying lutefisk though lol. |
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Even Anthony "I'll eat anything once" Bourdain had to steel himself to eat Durian and he had to eat it outside.
In many Southeast Asian countries the consumption of durian is prohibited in public and in places of public accomodation. Do a Google image search for: no duran sign Durian has been described as smelling like a gas leak, like a month-old rotting carcass, like a steamy dog turd baking in the Texas summer sun. 
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Even Anthony "I'll eat anything once" Bourdain had to steel himself to eat Durian and he had to eat it outside. In many Southeast Asian countries the consumption of durian is prohibited in public and in places of public accomodation. Do a Google image search for: no duran sign Durian has been described as smelling like a gas leak, like a month-old rotting carcass, like a steamy dog turd baking in the Texas summer sun. The correct quote is.. "smells like hell, tastes like heaven" but you have to say it in a Vietnamese accent. |
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It is nowhere near as horrible as some say, or it need not be, anyway. I've had some that did not suck at all. Same for haggis. It's something for the weak-sisters to impress each other with their "stunt eating exploits."
You want to eat something that sucks? Eat frozen canned corned beef hash chipped out of a can at 20 degrees below zero, and then lecture me about how a nice hot piece of lutefisk slathered in butter made by your loving grandmother sucks donkey dicks. |
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Even Anthony "I'll eat anything once" Bourdain had to steel himself to eat Durian and he had to eat it outside. In many Southeast Asian countries the consumption of durian is prohibited in public and in places of public accomodation. Do a Google image search for: no duran sign Durian has been described as smelling like a gas leak, like a month-old rotting carcass, like a steamy dog turd baking in the Texas summer sun. The correct quote is.. "smells like hell, tastes like heaven" but you have to say it in a Vietnamese accent. In South Carolina we say, in a Southern Accent, that it's "ENOUGH TO GAG A MAGGOT". 
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Lutefisk is nasty, but it's got nothing on this shit:
Surstromming a/k/a Canned Stink |
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It is nowhere near as horrible as some say, or it need not be, anyway. I've had some that did not suck at all. Same for haggis. It's something for the weak-sisters to impress each other with their "stunt eating exploits." You want to eat something that sucks? Eat frozen canned corned beef hash chipped out of a can at 20 degrees below zero, and then lecture me about how a nice hot piece of lutefisk slathered in butter made by your loving grandmother sucks donkey dicks. fuck that......I've got extra cats roaming the neighborhood. 
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 I used to work with a guy from Iceland many years ago and he used to bring that shit to work. He'd carry a chunk of it around in his pocket and nibble on it all day.
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I used to work with a guy from Iceland many years ago and he used to bring that shit to work. He'd carry a chunk of it around in his pocket and nibble on it all day.
I would be willing to give that a shot. Surströmming however gets a NFW.
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You'd have to threaten me with death in order to get me to eat lutefisk, whitefish gelatinized with lye. Even CHOW's Supertaster James Norton couldn't stomach it. Hell, he couldn't even swallow it.
http://www.chow.com/videos/show/supertaster/128401/the-magical-holiday-taste-of-lutefisk AAH yes.. Love Lutefisk, smothered with cream sauce and BACON bits.... Will be having some this next week. 
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This can be just as smelly.     |
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Quoted: This can be just as smelly. http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/P8090051.jpghttp://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/2011-08-02185411.jpghttp://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/2011-08-02185218.jpg Why is she putting fish heads in the shitter hole? |
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Quoted: You forgot?Quoted: This can be just as smelly. http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/P8090051.jpghttp://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/2011-08-02185411.jpghttp://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/2011-08-02185218.jpg Why is she putting fish heads in the shitter hole? Stink heads.<fermented salmon heads.> |
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Quoted: Quoted: You forgot?Quoted: This can be just as smelly. http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/P8090051.jpghttp://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/2011-08-02185411.jpghttp://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x401/akcaribouhunter/Food/2011-08-02185218.jpg Why is she putting fish heads in the shitter hole? Stink heads.<fermented salmon heads.> It's not something I'd try to remember. |